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Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns

Newsweek
Melina Delkic

In response to Wednesday's school shooting in Florida, high school students and teachers across the country are planning walkouts this spring to push Congress to act on guns.

On Twitter, students used the hashtags #NationalSchoolWalkout, #April20 and #April20Walkout to plan mass boycotts on the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999, as well as a separate walkout on March 14. Thousands have signed a petition from the Twitter account "National School Walkout." The goal: to make Congress listen to a population that, for the most part, doesn't have voting rights.

"Nothing has changed since Columbine," reads the petition on change.org. "Let us start a movement that lets the government know the time for change is now."

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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2018, 12:27:34 am »
Micah 6:8  "...what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2018, 12:36:58 am »
4/20. You know a stoner came up with this idea.
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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2018, 12:37:37 am »
On Twitter, students used the hashtags #NationalSchoolWalkout, #April20 and #April20Walkout to plan mass boycotts on the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting ...  hmm? What, it's 420? Um, let skip the walkout and just go smoke weed.
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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2018, 12:41:23 am »
Cool, students don't go to school, schools receive no funding, teachers can't indoctrinate and don't get paid, students receive zero credits can't advance or graduate, lack of graduating students means less college entrants and less funding to pay liberal elitist professors, less idiots with meaningless degrees turned out into the workforce.

What exactly is the downside to Congress ignoring such a boycott?

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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2018, 12:45:41 am »
"Nothing has changed since Columbine," reads the petition on change.org. "Let us start a movement that lets the government know the time for change is now."


I wonder if any of these people realize Columbine happened at the height of the assault weapons ban.
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I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2018, 01:35:44 am »
Teachers now act and behave like coddled children.
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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2018, 01:37:21 am »
Statewide walkout by teachers and public employees planned in West Virginia
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/statewide-walkout-by-teachers-and-public-employees-planned-in-west-virginia/article/2649403
That's about teachers wanting higher pay and lower insurance premiums, not about guns.
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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2018, 02:41:34 am »
Cool, students don't go to school, schools receive no funding, teachers can't indoctrinate and don't get paid, students receive zero credits can't advance or graduate, lack of graduating students means less college entrants and less funding to pay liberal elitist professors, less idiots with meaningless degrees turned out into the workforce.

What exactly is the downside to Congress ignoring such a boycott?


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I dunno. Sounds like a plan to me.
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« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2018, 02:49:12 am »
"Nothing has changed since Columbine," reads the petition on change.org. "Let us start a movement that lets the government know the time for change is now."


I wonder if any of these people realize Columbine happened at the height of the assault weapons ban.

@edpc


I am not a betting man,but I would almost be willing to bet the majority of them don't think there are ANY gun laws,or that we have a right to own guns. Most have heard mention of the 2nd Amendment,but they have no idea what document it is related to,and they don't need to know because "caring is more important than knowing."
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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2018, 02:50:24 am »
Teachers now act and behave like coddled children.

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That's because that's what they are. Most have never had an actual job.
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« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2018, 03:03:51 am »
This effort has community organizer all over it.

The libs always say 'It is for the kids' to get the public sympathy.
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« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2018, 03:14:36 am »
This effort has community organizer all over it.

The libs always say 'It is for the kids' to get the public sympathy.

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Yup! Was it Beria or Stalin that said "Never let a tragedy go unexploited"? Not an EXACT quote,but it covers the essence.
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« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2018, 03:22:56 am »
@truth_seeker

That's because that's what they are. Most have never had an actual job.
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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2018, 03:32:12 am »
Kick them out with warning.

Let their idiot parents find them some private school their dismal prodigy can pollute.   On THEIR dime.

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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2018, 03:41:02 am »
Good. 

Let them leave and never come back.

Longstanding trouble averted.

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« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2018, 05:15:40 am »
They should boycott schools until teachers are aloud to protect them.
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« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2018, 05:57:14 am »
Well.....bye!

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« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2018, 01:27:22 pm »
@edpc


I am not a betting man,but I would almost be willing to bet the majority of them don't think there are ANY gun laws,or that we have a right to own guns. Most have heard mention of the 2nd Amendment,but they have no idea what document it is related to,and they don't need to know because "caring is more important than knowing."
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« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2018, 02:08:16 pm »
I am not a betting man,but I would almost be willing to bet the majority of them don't think there are ANY gun laws,or that we have a right to own guns. Most have heard mention of the 2nd Amendment,but they have no idea what document it is related to,and they don't need to know because "caring is more important than knowing."
My niece, a high school senior who has been thoroughly indoctrinated by her public high school, just posted a meme on Facebook to the effect that the Second Amendment applies only to the type of guns that existed in 1776.

I just pray for her. It's pointless - at least for now - to try to convince her of the folly of her beliefs.
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« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2018, 02:25:31 pm »
My niece, a high school senior who has been thoroughly indoctrinated by her public high school, just posted a meme on Facebook to the effect that the Second Amendment applies only to the type of guns that existed in 1776.

I just pray for her. It's pointless - at least for now - to try to convince her of the folly of her beliefs.

If that be true than
The 1st Amendment must only work for spoken and written words on parchment paper.  Take away her I-phone and I-pad etc.
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« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2018, 02:33:38 pm »
If that be true than
The 1st Amendment must only work for spoken and written words on parchment paper.  Take away her I-phone and I-pad etc.
I wish I could. Actually, I responded on her FB post, "By that logic, only words written with a quill pen are protected by the First Amendment," but deleted it.
I'm just too tired to get into any fights with her. You know what they say:

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Re: Students to Boycott Schools Until Congress Acts on Guns - Newsweek
« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2018, 03:19:39 pm »
This effort has community organizer all over it.

The libs always say 'It is for the kids' to get the public sympathy.

The only thing that irritates me about this is its the activist media pretending to be just reporting again.